Crystal and I had met each other originally when we were 17 at a dance but lost track of each other until we were 25, this was due in part to our living in separate, far flung suburbs in the metro region and being dependent on public transportation. Our chance meeting 4 or 5 years later was through a male friend of mine who just happened to mention her name one day. I told him that I would like to see her again and asked if it could it be arranged in a nonchalant way. He agreed and when Crystal and I did meet, we hit it off immediately.
A lot had happened in our lives in those few short years. We had both gone to higher education and had completed our schooling and were out working in our respective fields. Crystal had gone on to be a nurse and had recently got back from Europe on holiday. She had also recently gotten out of a heavy relationship with a guy who she had been engaged to. Apparently he had either met someone else or had gotten cold feet about the whole thing. Either way, he ended the relationship and she was devastated, having gone to Europe with her sister to try and get over it.
My friend knew her from a university ballroom dancing club that they were both members of and he encouraged me to join as it was a great way to meet girls. This was where I met her again. The club was primarily for students, but they allowed former students and the general public to join. It was quite loose as long as you were enthusiastic about ballroom dance. Crystal and John were quite good dancers, especially John as he had been exposed to dance since he was a child, his parents still being avid competitive amateurs.
There was no question as to a relationship starting between Crystal and John, he was a little short guy of 130 pounds at a height of 5 foot 6 and she was a tall blonde who stood at 5 foot 8 with heels. She was a perfect match for me as I was 180 pounds and 6 foot one. I was kind of interested in cultivating a relationship with this pretty, busty blonde with her teasing ways and baby blue eyes. Knowing that she was on the rebound from a relationship which she hadn't gotten over yet, I waited a couple of months from the end of that summer to late October to ask her out on a date. She told me that she still wasn't ready for dating yet but I told her that we would just be friends. Back in those days, the term "friends with benefits" didn't really exist, you either were dating casually and seeing others or going steady and were exclusive to each other. "Friends" between male and female just meant a casual platonic relationship. I agreed to this and she gave me her phone number. I didn't care as I just enjoyed her company. Our personalities really complimented one another.
I had been working for this company for a few months and they really made it a fun place to work. The company had a couple of hundred employees and was in a niche market where they were very profitable. The owner of the company was a very generous guy who liked to spread some of the wealth around by having parties at the end of every month to celebrate all the employee's birthdays for that month. The last Friday of every month would see the booze flowing after work and because of this the morale in the company was very high and was an enviable place to work. The company never needed to advertise for employees, they always had enough people applying to work there.
I couldn't believe the amount of office romancing that went on in that company. From the lower echelons to the highest management, you never knew who was doing who. Regardless of this, things still seemed to go smoothly and enormous profits were still being made.
It was late October and I still didn't have a date for the company Christmas party, I wasn't seeing anyone at that time and I thought maybe Crystal would like to attend it with me. Even if I wasn't romantically involved with her it would be nice to have an attractive blonde with me for the evening.
I phoned her up and after some small talk asked her if she would like to go to my company Christmas party. She said, "Sure, sounds like fun, I'm not working that Friday night anyway."
That Friday came around quickly and I had agreed to pick her up at six because she lived in one direction from me and the party was an equal distance in the opposite direction. When I arrived at her place, Crystal came out in a really nice blue party dress, showing her nicely shaped legs from high heeled shoes up to the slit in the side of her dress. She had nice 38D cup breasts, which she carried well on her 5 foot six frame. Over this she had on a nice black faux fur coat which reached down to her knees. She had been to the hairdresser and really knew how to put on the cosmetics looking like a million bucks!
Once she sat in my car I looked down at her shapely calves, her sexy knees and how her skirt rode up her thighs, exposing more of the creamy flesh of her legs. I looked at her long blonde hair which was naturally wavy it looked so beautiful with her sparkling blue eyes and contrasted nicely against her jet black coat.
The journey to the hotel took about one hour and we had an easy going free flowing conversation about her nursing and how she had hit it off with a guy in university and how it came to an abrupt end when he met someone else.
Upon arriving at the hotel, we found the ballroom where the Christmas dinner was being held and I was amazed at how many people were there with their dates and spouses. I knew I was getting lots of looks from my fellow employees who were wondering how a boring guy like me could meet a hot blonde like Crystal. We found where we were to sit and upon seating I introduced her to the people around us.
The food was excellent and true to the tradition of the company, there was ample alcohol for everyone. I was not much of a drinker but had enough to be sociable. Crystal was really putting it back and very soon was in a very giggly mood. It was a very light hearted evening and a giggly, attractive blonde with excellent legs went down very well with the crowd. We were up dancing to every song and with every sip of her wine, she would grab me tighter. Half-way into the evening she started to kiss me. It surprised me as she had told me adamantly that she only wanted to be friends. As the evening progressed we just danced, kissed and made a bit of a spectacle of ourselves.
Around 1:00 a.m. we left the party as it was broken up. We walked to my car through the chilly air of the evening and as I opened her side of the car she gave me a big kiss on the mouth.